Cooking-stove



N. S. VEDDER.

Cooking Stove.

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NICHOLAS S. VEDDER, OF TROY, YORK.

COOKING-STOVE.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 27,398, dated March 6, 1860.

T o all whom fit may concern:

Be it known that I, NICHOLAS S. VEDDER, of the city of Troy, in thecounty of Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented a new anduseful improvement on such common or well-known cooking-stoves as havethe oven arranged underneath the fire-box and so extended both laterallyand upward as to form a capaciou's baking-space or roasting-chamberalong the side of the firebox and of the oven-space under it; and I dohereby declare that the following contains a full and exact descriptionof my invention, reference being had to the annexed drawings, which makea part of this specification, and represent a'cooking-stove of the kindabove mentioned with one form or modification of my improvement appliedthereto, and in which drawings- Figure 1 is a plan with the top orpothole-plate removed; Figs. 2 and 3, vertical sections at, andelevations of the parts back of, the lines s z and y y respectively, asviewed in the direction pointed by the arrows m- Fig. 4, a horizontalsection at, and plan of the parts below, the line w w; and Figs. 5, 6,and 7 vertical sections at, and elevations of the parts back of thelines 'v 1), u u, and t respectively, as seen in the direction by thearrows s.

The same letters refer to like parts in all the figures; and the redarrows therein indicate the courses of the gases of combustion throughthe smoke-flues of the stove.

The distinguished characteristic of my improvement on cooking stoves ofthe kind lirst above mentioned, consists in the arrangement ofsmoke-flues from the fire-box, B, along the top-plate, c, end-plate orendplates, d, cl, and bottom-plate, e, of the oven A, (so as to heat theoven suitably for baking and roasting purposes,) and at the same timehaving the door or doors, f, f', of the oven, placed in the side orsides g, 9, directly opposite to the upright side or ,sides L, h', ofthe fire-box; in order that perfectly free and direct access may therebybe had to the highest and most roomy and useful part, z', of the oven,and also, by the same door or doors, to the broad and highly heatedupright side or sides of the fire-box, so that pans of bread or pastry,or a turkey, pig, or large mass of meat, can be more easily placed inand removed from the most eiiicient part of the oven, and far moreconveniently inspected, and turned around, and

basted, and otherwise manipulated while baking or roasting therein, thancan be done in cooking stoves of the kind first above specified andheretofore made with the smoke-fiues arranged along the top, bottom, andthat side of the oven which is directly opposite to the upright side ofthe fire-box, and with the oven doors placed in the ends d, d', of theoven, or adjoining the ends of the fire-box.

Also, by my above-specified improved arrangement of the smoke-fines andoven doors in a cooking stove of the kind first above mentioned, I amenabled to have the ashbox, j, and the draft-register or slide, 7c,arranged at the end of the fire-box, as shown in the drawings, (so thatthe stove shall burn wood better, and be more easily made air tight thanif the draft and ash-box were at one side, L, of the lire-box) withouthaving the ash-box project over and obstruct the door-way of the oven,nor mounted on the oven door, as is necessary in cooking stoves of thekind first above specified when made as heretofore with the ash-box andoven doors at the ends of the lire box and oven, and the smoke-finesalong that side of the oven which is opposite to a side, It, of thefire-box. But it is not always necessary in my improved cooking stovethat the draft-slide and ash-box should be arranged at the end of thelire-box, although I generally prefer that arrangement; for either orboth of those parts may be placed at a side, 71,, of the fire-box whenthe Oven is not extended up on that side, and the stove still have thesame advantageous quality of free and direct access to both the side,it, of the fire-box, and the largest and most eiiicient part of theoven, by means of one and the same oven door, In case the oven, A, isextended up along both sides, h, 7L', 0f the tire-box, the same as shownon the one side, L, in the annexed drawings, it will then of course benecessary to have the ash-box at the end of the fire-box, if placed atall on the outside of the stove.

It is evident that the vform and position of the smoke-fines which arearranged from the fire-box, B, along the top, c, end, or ends, d, el',and bottom, e, of the oven, A, to the exit-pipe Z, as well as theposition of the latter, may be greatly varied, without affecting theprinciple, or materially lessening the advantageous result, of myimprovement. But I would generally recommend the arrangement shown inthe annexed drawings, whereby one portion of the gases of combustion,is, while hottest, first made to pass from the lire-box, B, throughfiues M, N, and O, over the top, 0, down along the back-end, 0l, andunder the bottom, e, to the front end of the largest and highest part ofthe oven, and then, with heat diminished, through iues, P and Q, alongthe bottom and up the back end, of the low part of the oven under thelire-box, to the exitspipe, Z, at the back end of the top of the stove;and whereby another portion of the gases of combustion is also made topass from the tire-box, or the flue-space M, first down through a Hue,R, along the front end CZ, of the most roomy part of the oven, and thenthrough the lues P and Q under and back of the oven to the draft-pipe,Z.

S is a damper which closes a direct-draft passage from the {ire-box, orthe flue M, into the eXit pipe. A damper or register,

T, may be arranged so as to close, or to regulate the quantity of thegases passing through, the flue R.

What I claim as my improvement on such cooking-stoves as have the ovenarranged and extended underneath and up alongside of the fire-box, B,substantially as herein represented, and desire to secure by LettersPatent is,

The arrangement of the door or doors, f, f, of the oven, A, directlyopposite to the side or sides, h, h, of the fire-box, and of the mostcapacious and effective portion of the oven, as and for the purposeherein set forth, the smoke-fines being extended from the lire-box alongthe top, c, end, or ends, d, CZ, and bottom, e, of the oven,substantially as herein described.

N. S. VEDDER.

Witnesses:

THos. J. CORNELIUS, AUSTIN F. PARK.

